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I just (4 days ago now) got my EZ-Flash IV TF (SD Micro) + SuperKey (old version) from winsunx.com (arrived 1 day late!... stupid ups.) It works great. I had no issues with needing to file\trim down anything, but saying that I do have to unscrew the cover everytime to remove the Micro SD (man these things are amazingly small). The patcher works great (they fixed the other passme issue and tony hawk now works 100%) and is very easy to use (for me in a Guest PC XP virtual desktop in OS X), and I can bring the files (saver and patched rom) to my OS X desktop and do the transfering back and forth there instead of in my Virtual Desktop of Windows XP (which is great). I'm so glad I got this... best pickup ever, and it's just the start for awesome ds titles to come (can't wait for zelda).

One thing I noticed is for the save to work, after you shut down the system, you must reboot to the loader main screen for it to write the save to the micro sd (i guess it keeps it temperarly in the onboard memory, or eeprom). I've forgotten once, i'd say after 10-15 minutes with power off the save info (if not written to sd micro) is lost. Also, sleep mode works perfectly, and I haven't tried any homebrew yet.

I noticed this for saves, but it does not love the save after power off on mine.

When ever I turn on the DS, I get the save message for whatever game I played last. Even if i played it 12 hours ago. Only if I restart the DS LIte twice, do no save messages appear.

Does anyone know how to get to ez4 loader screen within a game without restarting the DS?

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This is also how the M3 works, when you finish a game, and upon the next "boot" it will save the previous games save. if you do not load a new rom, and turn off and back on you do not see this message. Seems to be the normal practice for this type of device for DS.

Ok... is it the on board battery (cause there is something that looks like a battery, i think). recharged by the connection to a powered up DS? That'd make sense, I'll try that and hopefuly it won't be as lost easily. And that's good to know it's normal for most flash carts.

And DarkSpark, they don't have an option to do that... yet. EZF Team said it is something on their agenda for a future kernel update.

That's correct. You "save" in-game as you would if you had the real game. Then, the next time you power on the DS it will write the save to the card. It's not something you have to do immediately. I've left mine off for 12 hours or more and it will still write the save when I go back and turn it on.

after you reboot it gives you 2 screens, the first (giving an option to cancel the .sav write)

and the second (2 second after the first) telling you which file it is writing to

also an update... i've been able to leave the ds powered off for nearly a day, and it has been able to retain the save data in tact so it can write the .sav file upon next reboot. so basically, after you finish playing your game (no matter if the game "auto saves" or you chose to save with in the game) when you boot off the system the save data is saved via the onboard sram... then on your next time booting in to the ds loader it will show those two last screens (seen above) which will then write the data from the sram to the .sav file (created by the EZ4 Patcher) on your SDMicro. I haven't found any major issues yet, and none of the titles that i've wanted to try have given any issues in patching or playing stages.

EDIT: took me a while to get the images working... site i have it posted on is picky with case-sensitivity